DIS is based upon identified work demand for available labor resources, with a primary aim to assign the needed employees to open jobs detailed by the work demand. In addition to available demand, labor assignment is made by rules and processes that will insure maximum cost savings, extended productivity and enhance job fulfillment. Demand assignment of employees is made based upon identified schedule, department, work-center/location and sub-location. Demand scheduling is a key component of the DIS system, focusing allocation labor to open positions based upon employee schedules, preferences and primarily labor skills and proficiencies.

Employee’s position, job code and pay rate are subject to change depending upon open demand requirements. Demand is generated by an external forecasting system or created by the DIS demand templates process. A crew template represents requirements identified employee position, job code, skill and skill level to be assigned for work in a specific location or sub-location at a specific shift and work-schedule. Any number of jobs can be assigned and scheduled for a single employee during a single shift. DIS’s AUTOMATCH facilities matches employees with demand job in a particular demand schedule. DIS assigns the needed employees to open demand automatically by skill and skill level preference.

AUTOMATCH schedules and assigns employees from the man-power supply made available by the TOS Time and Labor Management (TLM) system for the shift, day or week or month in progress.  The AUTOMATCH function performs global assignment of employees to demand in one or more departments, shifts, location and sub-location. In addition, DIS contains a conditional RulesEngine to alter resource requirements based upon defined constraints and “what if” conditions. Constraints and rules may vary from one AUTOMATCH cycle to another depending upon demand requirements and resource availability.

DIS functions include:

·  Skill & Skill level based system

·  Certification, position, skill and job code based assignment

·  Seniority & profile rules applied

·  Assignment by location

·  Assignment by sub location

·  Crew assignment templates

·  Product/project templates

·  Labor utilization reports

·  Auto match by schedule

·  Demand maintenance

·  Integration with planning system

·  Assignment and manual override

·  Integrated with attendance

·  Update master schedule

·  Integrated with activity reporting

·  User dynamic allocation process

·  On-line job and activity dispatch